I've fallen behind, tsk, tsk!

Recent stories:

There was Grooming Lessons up @ Static Movement:

http://staticmovement.com/ahickman.htm

And Floating Dust up @ Bewildering Stories, a follow up to Blood Moon, from earlier in the year. (thanks for the nudge Walt!)

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue314/floating_dust.html

And there was Empty nest @ Pygmy Giant:

http://thepygmygiant.blogspot.com/2008/10/empty-nest.html

What else?

Did I mention For He's a jolly Good Fellow, and The Shape of Things to Come over @ Short Humour?:

http://www.short-humour.org.uk/writersshowcase/forhesajollygoodfellow.htm

http://www.short-humour.org.uk/writersshowcase/theshapeofthingstocome.htm

Oh and of course there was Late for the Curfew, @ The Pygmy Giant's new home:

http://thepygmygiant.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/310/

And I think that's all for the recent back log.

That'll teach me to take my eye off the blog

just a blink, and weeks fly by! I've been tied up trying to free a block in my first attempt at a novel... well I say first attempt - that isn't counting the Regency Bodice Ripper I got to chapter 5 many years ago!! maybe I should dig out the notes and plough on, eh?

I have had some more flashes very kindly received, and I'll post tags for them later.

Thank you, one and all, for visiting here, and for your kind words re this site. I don't think I'll ever be a compulsive blogger, but it's nice to get out there and visit with y'all sometimes!

'Later!

...And we're all still here

Keep watching though. If you notice time slowing down - perhaps we have a problem!

And nearer to home

Well today the world stands with its collective fingers in its ears – waiting for the big bang! Out in CERN the scientists are going to throw the switch to turn on the super-cooled coils, looking for the pesky God Particle, you know the one that Higgs was convinced we needed to find to explain how the universe works.

So much hype and breast beating: “Today the World might end!” is dramatic fodder for the hungry news machines, a sound bite which fills the media void, fleetingly. And yet, today will be a whimper as the switch is flicked to on. Logically, any risk to the Universal fabric will come later, in the wee anonymous hours of some future date, when those massive coils have leached out enough heat to approach absolute zero, and the target particles have increased in velocity to get close enough to Einstein’s C.

Maybe there is a God Particle lurking amongst the charms and the quarks; but maybe we should allow for its opposite too. And if so, perhaps the devils within the atom should be allowed to remain at peace, undisturbed by inquisitive arrogance and the childish insistence of wanting to know.

All The Continents of the Sun..

is a new piece up at Every Day Fiction, a site which gives you a daily dollop of small fiction, delivered into your email in-tray. You can subscribe, too! Go on, get yourself a cup of beverage (mmm yummy!), sit down and read it @:

http://www.everydayfiction.com/all-the-continents-of-the-sun-by-avis-hickman-gibb/#comment-8598

In view of what's going on today at CERN, perhaps those scientists should read this one!
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I don't just write, y'know...

But I do some reviewing of others' work too. Go look around The Short Review - tag in the links section. It's a wonderful site, full of stuff about a very under valued writing art - the short story.

Go and visit, and perhaps you'll become a fan of the short too! They are longer than a flash, but shorter than a full book!

Comments, suggestions & comissions

...all will be considered! Especially that last one! And the first two need to be clean and both anatomically & morally possible!

If you like my stories, feel free to leave a message here in this post.

If you don't like them... keep it to yourself!!
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